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Gutstein, Donald, 1938-
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Petroleum industry and trade -- Environmental aspects -- Canada.
Petroleum industry and trade -- Political aspects -- Canada.
Petroleum industry and trade -- Economic aspects -- Canada.
Fossil fuels -- Environmental aspects -- Canada.
Fossil fuels -- Political aspects -- Canada.
Fossil fuels -- Economic aspects -- Canada.
Global warming -- Canada.
Climatic changes -- Canada.
Environmentalism -- Canada.
Energy industries -- Canada -- Forecasting.
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Gutstein, Donald, 1938-
Petroleum industry and trade -- Environmental aspects -- Canada.
Petroleum industry and trade -- Political aspects -- Canada.
Petroleum industry and trade -- Economic aspects -- Canada.
Fossil fuels -- Environmental aspects -- Canada.
Fossil fuels -- Political aspects -- Canada.
Fossil fuels -- Economic aspects -- Canada.
Global warming -- Canada.
Climatic changes -- Canada.
Environmentalism -- Canada.
Energy industries -- Canada -- Forecasting.
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The big stall : how big oil and think tanks are blocking action on climate change in Canada / Donald Gutstein.
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Gutstein, Donald, 1938-
James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers, 2018.
Call #:
338
.2728
G984b
Subjects
Petroleum industry and trade -- Environmental aspects -- Canada.
Petroleum industry and trade -- Political aspects -- Canada.
Petroleum industry and trade -- Economic aspects -- Canada.
Fossil fuels -- Environmental aspects -- Canada.
Fossil fuels -- Political aspects -- Canada.
Fossil fuels -- Economic aspects -- Canada.
Global warming -- Canada.
Climatic changes -- Canada.
Environmentalism -- Canada.
Energy industries -- Canada -- Forecasting.
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9781459413474 (softcover)
Description:
304 p. ; 24 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"In fall 2015, the new Trudeau government endorsed the Paris Accord and promised to tackle global wamring. In 2016, it released a major report which set out a national energy strategy embracing clean growth, technological innovation and carbon pricing. Rather than putting in place tough measures to achieve the Paris targets however, the government reframed global warming as a market opportunity for Canada's clean technology sector. In The Big Stall, Donald Gutstein traces the origins of the government's climate change plan back to the energy sector itself - in particular Big Oil. He shows how, in the last fifteen years, Big Oil has infiltrated provincial and federal governments, academia, media and the non-profit sector to sway government and public opinion on the realities of climate change and what needs to be done about it. Working both behind the scenes and in high-profile networks, Canada's energy companies moved the debate away from discussion of the measures required to create a zero-carbon world and towards market-based solutions that will cut CO2 emissions - but not enough to prevent severe climate impacts. The progressive-seeming Trudeau Liberals have been co-opted by the embedded advocates of the oil and gas industry. The result: oil and gas companies can continue profiting from exporting their resources, instead of leaving them in the ground to minimize climate change. The door has been left wide open for oil companies to determine their own futures, and to go on drilling new wells, building new tar sands plants and constructing new pipelines. This book offers the background information readers need to challenge politicians claiming they are taking meaningful action on global warming." --From publisher.
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